Kate brings more than two decades of experience to her clients. Throughout her career she has advocated primarily on behalf of plaintiffs employing her unique abilities to synthesize complex factual records to prove violations of law by corporations in industries from telecommunications and technology to banking, consumer credit and healthcare. She has achieved substantial success using private rights of action in federal and state laws including RICO and state consumer protection laws to expose corporate wrongdoing. For more than 16 years, Kate has exclusively represented whistleblowers using the Federal False Claims Act (FCA) and state versions of the FCA as well as a growing number of whistleblower programs, because the information whistleblowers can bring to the government with her assistance is increasingly the most important tool for exposing any violation of the law.
Because of her expertise Kate is frequently invited to speak to national audiences of attorneys on a variety of topics impacting whistleblowers. She is a member of the American Bar Association including the Public Law Group and the State, Local and Tribal Law Group as well as the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Section. She is also a member of The Anti-Fraud Coalition (TAF), a non-profit group dedicated to educating and empowering whistleblowers. She also serves on TAF’s Board of Directors, helping guide TAF in its mission to defend and empower whistleblowers who expose fraud on the government and the financial markets. She previously served as Chairwoman of TAF’s Public Education Committee to educate potential whistleblowers about whistleblower laws and their rights. Under her committee leadership TAF created a blog including a yearly series of posts called Fraud by the Numbers, as well as the podcast Fraud in America. She continues to volunteer her time to promote and develop special projects to further TAF’s mission to support whistleblowers in their efforts to report fraud.
Education
Trinity College, Hartford, CT – B.A., American Studies (1988)
University of California, College of the Law – J.D. (1998)
Bar Admissions
State Bars of California and Rhode Island.
United States District Courts for Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California and the District of Rhode Island.
Notable Successes
United States ex rel Ormsby v. Sutter Health
State of California ex rel Rudolph v. Essilor Laboratories of America, et al.
United States ex rel Macias v. Pacific Health Corp, et al.
United States ex rel Knoflick vs. Green Bag Co. et al
Friedman v. 24-Hour Fitness USA, Inc.
Panel Presentations
“Getting to Know the State MFCUs: California & Rhode Island” – Federal Bar Association, Qui Tam Section, October 2025
“Targeting Corporate DEI via the False Claims Act” A Zoom Roundtable co-sponsored by the College of Labor Employment Lawyers and the Federal Bar Association’s Qui Tam Section, March 2025
“Focus on Fundamentals: Practical Points for Every FCA Case From Intake to Unsealing” – The Anti-Fraud Coalition Annual Conference, September 2024
“FCA State of Play 2023” with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael Granston, U.S Department of Justice, Civil Fraud Section – Federal Bar Association, November 2023
Focus on Medicare Part C” with Assistant Director Edward Crooke, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Fraud Section – American Bar Association National Virtual Institutes Civil False Claims 2022, September 2022
COVID-19 Fraud: An Overview of Civil Enforcement under the False Claims Act” with Deputy Director Colin Huntley, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Fraud Section – TAF Annual Conference, October 2020
Becoming Experts on Experts” with Senior Assistant Attorney General Candice Deisher, Virginia Attorney General’s Office – TAF Annual Conference, October 2018
“How to Proceed in Declined Cases” with Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory David, U.S Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Supervising Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Paul, California Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit – TAF Annual Conference, November 2017
Publications
“The VA: The Civilian Agency with the Most Procurement Dollars at Stake – and a Fraud Problem” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 26, 2025
“Busting Modern-Day Trusts with the Help of Whistleblowers” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 11, 2025
“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth Billions for a Cure” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 27, 2024
“Why is the Government’s Best Weapon Against Fraud So Rarely Deployed to Combat Defense Fraud?” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 9, 2024
“At Your Service: Government Procurement of Services” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 22, 2023
“How Much Does a Pharmaceutical Product Cost the Government? It Depends…” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 21, 2023
“Fraud By The Numbers 2023 – Introduction” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 1, 2023
“Why Would Anyone Oppose Whistleblower Programs” with Jeb White, Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 30, 2022
“One Year’s Tax Revenue is Another Year’s Purchases of Drugs and Biologics” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 25, 2022
“Paycheck Protection Program Fraud: All Cannot Be Forgiven” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 22, 2022
“Weeding Between the Lines of DOJ’s Statistics on False Claims Act Fraud Recoveries” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 1, 2022
“Fraud by the Numbers 2022” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 1, 2022
“The Cinderella of Government Spending: Non-Defense Contracting” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 27, 2021
“How Whistleblowers Can Combat COVID-19 Fraud” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 15, 2021
“How the SEC Regulates $29 Trillion in Equities: The Basics of Securities Fraud” Fraud by the Numbers – TAF Coalition, September 13, 2021
Interviews/Quotes
Bloomberg Law, “Big 2025 FCA Cases Ponder Constitution, Causation, Cybersecurity” – December 31, 2024
Fraud in America, “Whistleblower Kathy Ormsby” with Kate Scanlan discussing U.S. ex rel Ormsby for Sutter Health – October 26, 2022
Fraud in America, “Whistleblower 101 with Kate Scanlan” – July 7, 2021